This week is Hurricane Awareness Week, and one of the events is a webinar on May 5 from 9 to 10 am EST that is geared towards students from 3rd to 8th grade. If you home-school or have kids in that age group who are fascinated with weather, you might…
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This regional gathering will bring together partners for the first time under the newly established Southeast Drought Early Warning System (SE DEWS) network to share and discuss ongoing drought-related activities, learn about new and innovative drought research and resources, explore emerging issues and opportunities, and identify collaborative paths forward that…
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The preliminary climate maps for April 2022 are now available from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. They show that Florida and the coastal plains regions of other states were mostly a bit warmer than normal, while the inland areas in the northwestern part of the region were slightly cooler…
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The focus of stormy weather this week will be in the central US, which certainly needs the rain, although perhaps not the tornadoes and hail they are seeing this weekend. In the Southeast, we should see relatively light and scattered amounts of rain this week, with the highest amounts in…
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I don’t talk about space weather too often because it usually does not affect climate or agriculture, but this is too interesting not to share. A new Mars expedition, the Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, today released stunning images of Mars’ mysterious auroras,…
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Wildfires propagate by sending sparks downwind, igniting the dry material and spreading the fire. A new study published in Nature Geoscience looks at the propagation of droughts and shows that droughts move by creating rainfall deficits that cause areas of dry soil downwind. That eventually expands the drought as rainfall…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that there have been slight expansions of drought in North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia this week due to lack of rainfall, while the other states did not change. Puerto Rico saw a slight decrease in dry conditions this week. Rainfall amounts the next…
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